By Carli Teproff
Billionaire NFL owner (click here) Robert Kraft wandered into the wrong “Asian spa” and got himself charged with a crime. Now his lawyers find themselves accused by prosecutors of contempt of court.
The defense lawyers say it is all nonsense.
It’s just another day in the strange saga involving two separate-but-related court cases. One involves the misdemeanor solicitation-of-prostitution prosecution of Kraft, owner of the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots. The other involves the felony prosecution of two women who worked at the spa.
In a motion filed Tuesday, the state asked a Palm Beach County judge to hold Kraft attorneys Alex Spiro and William Burck in contempt for “knowingly and intentionally making a false statement of fact” while questioning a witness, who happens to be a cop who made traffic stops after customers left the spa. They were grilling him about a conversation supposedly picked up over a body cam.
The claim is that in questioning the cop the lawyers set up a false premise: that the officer had been recorded stating that if anyone questioned whether there was a proper justification for making a traffic stop, the cop could simply “make shit up.”
In fact, the officer is not recorded saying that....
